Unfortunately there's no real good short term investments right now. Stocks are fairly high from PE, gold is risky and will get worse if interest rates rise, bonds will be hit by interest rates. Personally for your five year plan I like some good dividend focused funds or preferred ETFs (like PGF) as at least you'll get a bit more out of them if they drop.

Medium-long term, suggest cost averaging into some low fee vanguard or index funds (especially through tax advantaged systems). Meaning contribute on a regular basis rather than trying to time the market with big contributions.

As others said, trying to time individual stocks can feel good when it's up, but they can fall a lot faster than they rise unless you're lucky, so need to have patience or it can drive you mad. Something like Apple is at least unlikely to drop huge percent though.

So due to you all I gave in and got a "new". I did wireless transfer and now want to resell the old 3ds xl. Question... it was the new super Mario bros version - does that mean super Mario is no longer on the old device? Want to make sure I market accurately for selling and don't want to go in and make a profile and all in it.